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The Millwall Bushwackers are a football firm associated with Millwall Football Club. [1] Millwall have a historic association with football hooliganism, which came to prevalence in the 1970s and 1980s, with a firm known originally as F-Troop, eventually becoming more widely known as the Millwall Bushwackers, who were one of the most notorious hooligan gangs in England.
Millwall are also famous for officially being the 'best supported club' to have played at the old Wembley Stadium. In the 1999 Autowindscreen Shield Final v Wigan Athletic, Millwall had an estimated 48,000 fans supporting them. In the 2008/2009 season Millwall qualified for the League 1 Play Off Final after beating Leeds United over two legs.
Millwall Rovers in 1887, the first season they entered the FA Cup. This is a list of all seasons played by Millwall Football Club from their early beginnings in the Southern League, to their inaugural season in the English Football League and up to their last completed season. It details their record in the FA Cup, the League Cup and other major competitions entered, as well as managers, top ...
This has led to a siege mentality among supporters of the club, which gave rise to the Millwall fans' famous terrace chant, No one likes us, we don't care, being sung in defiant defence of themselves and their team. [213] [214] [215] In April 2013, Millwall met Wigan Athletic in a semi-final of the FA Cup. Millwall lost the game 2–0. [76]
Millwall's first top division season ended with a tenth-place finish, which was the lowest place occupied by the club all season. They also briefly led the league for one night in September 1989 after beating Coventry 4–1, but won only two more games all season and were relegated in bottom place at the end of the 1989–90 campaign.
As Wigan equalised at 2–2, a light aircraft flew above Wigan's ground, the DW Stadium, trailing a banner which read "Avram Grant – Millwall Legend". [80] Grant was sacked after the game. The plane had been hired by Millwall supporters from the fans' website House of Fun, celebrating Grant's failure to prevent West Ham's relegation. [81]
Millwall knocked out Premier League side Everton on the way to reaching the FA Cup Quarter-final for the eleventh time in their history. Millwall spent the majority of the season in a relegation battle, securing their place in the Championship with two games to spare at the expense of Rotherham. The season covers the period from 1 July 2018 to ...
Millwall drew the first leg 1–1 at home at The New Den with Dennis Wise scoring Millwall's first European goal. [4] Prior to the second leg, there was violence between the clubs' supporters; supporters of Millwall and Ferencváros both have reputations for football hooliganism. [5] Two Millwall fans were stabbed in the hooligan violence. [6]